coreutils missing one component: (g)stat

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 11 13:47:31 UTC 2019


Hi!

> I noticed, trying to configure ptxdist under FreeBSD (ptxdist.org), that stat (gstat) was missing in sysutils/coreutils.
> 
> Configure script execution ended with
> 
> checking for GNU rm... /usr/local/bin/grm
> checking for GNU rmdir... /usr/local/bin/grmdir
> checking for GNU sort... /usr/local/bin/gsort
> checking for GNU stat... configure: error: could not find GNU stat

Because FreeBSD has its own gstat command (doing something different),
the port has gnustat for GNU stat. So the configure script
needs to check for gnustat, maybe this solves your problem?

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